Director of Engineering, Query Optimization

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland • Posted May 27, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Dublin, County Dublin
Posted: May 27, 2026
Category: Computer Occupations
Application Deadline: July 06, 2026

Role Description

As the Director of Engineering for the MongoDB Query Optimization team, you will be responsible for leading the development of a world-class, designed for the document model. The distributed architecture of MongoDB and flexible schema open up an uncharted realm of captivating questions about query languages, cost-based optimization, schema inference, data federation, and many more. The Query Optimization team plays a crucial role in driving the vision, experience, and architecture of data processing for the entire organization.

As a director-level manager, you will directly manage a team of engineering managers and staff-level engineers. Although this is a people-management role, you must be able to zoom in to weigh-in on deeply technical decisions in the query processing domain.


Our global team is continuously expanding its charter and attracting the best query engineers working remotely or from hubs such as New York City, Dublin, Seattle, and Palo Alto. You will le...

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